Let us assume, for the sake of argument, that the 9/11 conspiracy theories are true, and that the attacks were somehow orchestrated by elements of the US government in order to achieve their nefarious goals.
We are now 20 years past the event, and none of these conspirators has been uncovered or brought to justice. To all intents and purposes, they got clean away with it.
OK? As I say, just for the sake of argument.
Now, if they got away with it, then presumably, they also achieved whatever goals they had in mind when they set this thing up.
This is my question: What were those goals?
This was clearly a complex plot, which must have involved a great deal of time, effort and money to plan and execute. What was its purpose?
The general idea, from what I've seen, is that it allowed America to invade Iraq and Afghanistan with a semblance of legitimacy. Fine. They did that. And then? What did they get from that?
Oil? Can't be. US imports of oil from Iraq fell after the invasion, and American companies do not own or run any significant part of Iraq's oil industry.
A continuance of American power and influence, a la PNAC? Well, that didn't work either. Iraq was a disaster for America: a ruinously expensive quagmire, from which it has only recently extricated itself. US power and influence has diminished, rather than increased. Vast swathes of the world were alienated by the (perceived or actual) anti-Muslim focus of US actions. Russia, Iran and China were able to profit from this debacle and increase their own power and influence. The damage to the reputation of America from such incidents as Abu Ghraib was also massive. The fallout from America's ignominious departure from Afghanistan, after a decade of fruitless occupation, continues to rumble on.
The alleged perpetrators? Rumsfeld, Cheney etc? Gone, and their philosophy discredited.
What, then, was the point? What were the intended goals? What did the orchestrators of this plot actually gain from their endeavours?
We are now 20 years past the event, and none of these conspirators has been uncovered or brought to justice. To all intents and purposes, they got clean away with it.
OK? As I say, just for the sake of argument.
Now, if they got away with it, then presumably, they also achieved whatever goals they had in mind when they set this thing up.
This is my question: What were those goals?
This was clearly a complex plot, which must have involved a great deal of time, effort and money to plan and execute. What was its purpose?
The general idea, from what I've seen, is that it allowed America to invade Iraq and Afghanistan with a semblance of legitimacy. Fine. They did that. And then? What did they get from that?
Oil? Can't be. US imports of oil from Iraq fell after the invasion, and American companies do not own or run any significant part of Iraq's oil industry.
A continuance of American power and influence, a la PNAC? Well, that didn't work either. Iraq was a disaster for America: a ruinously expensive quagmire, from which it has only recently extricated itself. US power and influence has diminished, rather than increased. Vast swathes of the world were alienated by the (perceived or actual) anti-Muslim focus of US actions. Russia, Iran and China were able to profit from this debacle and increase their own power and influence. The damage to the reputation of America from such incidents as Abu Ghraib was also massive. The fallout from America's ignominious departure from Afghanistan, after a decade of fruitless occupation, continues to rumble on.
The alleged perpetrators? Rumsfeld, Cheney etc? Gone, and their philosophy discredited.
What, then, was the point? What were the intended goals? What did the orchestrators of this plot actually gain from their endeavours?
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